Road trips are one of the great unifiers of the world. If you have a car, and you have friends, you can respect and enjoy the idea of a great road trip. So, I’m proposing a 50-stop road trip. This picture above has been hailed as the ultimate united states road trip. If you have time, can leave your job for this long, and a group of people you want to spend this much time in the car with, this is the trip for you. These fifty stops are:
- Grand Canyon, AZ
2. Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
3. Craters of the Moon, ID
4. Yellowstone National Park, WY
5. Pikes Peak, CO
6. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
7. The Alamo, TX
8. The Platt Historic District, OK
9. Toltec Mounds, AR
10. Elvis Presley’s Graceland, TN
11. Vicksburg National Military Park, MS
12. French Quarter, LA
13. USS Alabama, AL
14. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL
15. Okefenokee Swamp Park, GA
16. Fort Sumter National Monument, SC
17. Lost World Caverns, WV
18. Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center, NC
19. Mount Vernon, VA
20. White House, Washington, D.C.
21. Colonial Annapolis Historic District, MD
22. New Castle Historic District, DE
23. Cape May Historic District, NJ
24. Liberty Bell, PA
25. Statue of Liberty, NY
26. The Mark Twain House & Museum, CT
27. The Breakers, RI
28. USS Constitution, MA
29. Acadia National Park, ME
30. Mount Washington Hotel, NH
31. Shelburne Farms, VT
32. Fox Theater, MI
33. Spring Grove Cemetery, OH
34. Mammoth Cave National Park, KY
35. West Baden Springs Hotel, IN
36. Abraham Lincoln’s Home, IL
37. Gateway Arch, MO
38. C. W. Parker Carousel Museum, KS
39. Terrace Hill Governor’s Mansion, IA
40. Taliesin, WI
41. Fort Snelling, MN
42. Ashfall Fossil Bed, NE
43. Mount Rushmore, SD
44. Fort Union Trading Post, ND
45. Glacier National Park, MT
46. Hanford Site, WA
47. Columbia River Highway, OR
48. San Francisco Cable Cars, CA
49. San Andreas Fault, CA
50. Hoover Dam, NV
These stops can be taken in any order. It begins in the Grand Canyon, but as this trip is a big circle, it doesn’t matter where you begin. This trip will change your life. In reality, this is a roughly three-month trip. You will see a little bit of everything. From the beauty that is the Grand Canyon, to the huge San Andreas fault, you can see the natural beauties of the United States. Human made monuments, from the Hoover Dam to Mount Rushmore, are on this list to make sure that you can get the full United States treatment. This road trip is the crown of all road trips. It touches every single (continental) state in one big circle. Try it. Let us know how it goes. Also, keep in mind that when gas prices are low, that’s when you must go. Have fun out there!